Word: locals
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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These different methods of study need not be carried on entirely apart from one another. If there is an opportunity for younger students to make investigations, as in local history, they should be encouraged in this pursuit, for it cannot fail to give them a lifelong interest in the study of history. In confirmation of this view, Justin Winsor related his youthful experience in collecting information from town records, from the inscriptions on gravestones, and from the traditions of aged people of the neighborhood...
From Prof. J. H. Payne, the President of the Co-operative Society of the University of Michigan, the following facts have been ascertained relative to the work to be done by that society in its endeavors to protect the students at Ann Arbor from the extortions of the local tradesmen. Professor Payne has been in Cambridge for the past few days, making a careful study of the system on which our own society is conducted. Coming as it does at such an important crisis in the affairs of the Harvard society, his testimony as to the value of Co-operation...
...same system of exorbitant charges which formerly prevailed at Cambridge, and that, inspired by the success of co-operation, as shown by the great reduction in prices secured by our society, they determined to found one of their own. The effect of this action was immediate. The local tradesmen who had formerly kept prices up to a most unfair standard by their concerted action, were compelled to make immediate reductions. In fact, the leading book-sellers advertised the works required by students at a drop of nearly 30 per cent. from the prices demanded the year previous to the formation...
...English cousins. They are given on the authority-of the Rev. Charles W. Stubbs, who writes to the Pall Mall Gazette: "I can vouch for the boba-fides of the following, which I have met with during the last two or three years as examiner in the Cambridge local examinations: 1. 'Pitt was a great statesman; Fox was a ditto, he wrote a very good book of martyrs. Pitt and Fox both died a month after each other.' 2. 'The Gordian knot was a very difficult knot which Nero tied, and by means of which he kept the empire...
...meeting, that it would be much better in the country for two or three towns to maintain one high school adequately equipped, rather than for each one to maintain a weak and poorly equipped high school. The only thing that stands in the way of such a union is local jealousy, and the sooner that is cast aside the better...